Quotes About Balance

Stability and balance is not an absence of chaos. It is the ability to walk the line between chaos and order with an open mind and heart.

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

We've got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.

Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. "Practise not doing and everything will fall into place," says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's primer.

As jurist Marshall also noted, "the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

everything in life is a good news/bad news story.

We can't maintain the pace unless we pray, study Scripture, and read heavy doses of the classical spiritual literature.

Today, many people write about burnout. Why didn't Jesus burn out? I think the answer rests in three simple principles: Jesus measured all investments of time against his purpose, he took time for solitude with the Father, and he didn't try to do too much.

The order we seek begins with a thorough scouring of the inside of life.

It is a delicate balance, resisting the hypnotic spell of an organization's culture and, at the same time, remaining committed from the heart to the personally relevant goals of the organization.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger … LESSONS: Anonymous

Death and horror are always near us. The challenge is to get on with our lives and be happy when we can always see them out of the corner of our eye, blurred, but still recognisable in the background.

Teetering on life's balance, between the long past and the unknown yet less infinite future, knowing it's only going to tip in one direction, and more quickly than you ever expected — that sense of vertigo, fear, excitement, and uncertainty, is middle age.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

Awake is vertical, asleep horizontal, and drunk is dizzyingly diagonal.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

An artist makes visual the rhythms and arrhythmias of the universe.

Art is the triumph over chaos.